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As a single integrated solution of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition is designed to help you improve your storage TCO and ROI by:
- TPC combines the assets, capacity, performance and operational management, traditionally offered by separate Storage Resource Management, SAN Management and Device Management applications into a single platform
- Monitor and track the performance of SAN attached SMI-S compliant storage devices
- Manage the capacity utilization and availability of file systems, databases, storage, and IBM TotalStorage 3584 Family of tape libraries
- Monitor, manage and control (zone) SAN fabric components
- Assisting customers in support of data classification, ILM assessments and ITIL storage practices around service support
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition consists of:
Improve Storage Infrastructure Management and Service Levels
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition provides all the management capabilities to better manage your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from application to back-end storage system disk at a single bundled price. With Productivity Center Standard Edition you can centralize the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on. This also provides a single management application with modular integrated components that easy to install, configure and operate.
Productivity Center Standard Edition additionally can manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis on SAN fabric performance. This provides customer an central storage management application to monitor, plan, configure, report and do problem determination on heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
Details about integration and interoperability, including device support, database support, server hardware requirements, and O/S platform support can be found on the "Install/use" tab in Product support. Other technical resources such as troubleshooting, downloads, and planning information can also be found in the Product support section.
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Central Console - Designed to increase
the efficiency of storage administrators by providing a leading-edge
topology viewer, configuration and reporting tool to centrally
manage storage infrastructure. |
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Manage IBM TotalStorage and heterogeneous storage with
a single suite - Provides extensive operational control,
asset and capacity management, and performance reporting for
the latest IBM TotalStorage platforms as well as heterogeneous
storage via SNIA's SMI-S Version 1.0.2 and 1.1 |
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Comprehensive Enterprise Storage Reporting and Management - Delivers a single management tool to monitor availability, performance and capacity of storage infrastructure using a role-based management approach. |
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Host to Disk Storage Performance Management allows administrators to manage and monitor the performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including performance monitoring and analysis of SAN fabrics, IBM storage systems and heterogeneous storage devices. |
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Enterprise capacity reporting - over 300 comprehensive enterprise wide reports designed to help administrators make intelligent capacity management decisions based on current and trended historical data. |
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Policy based management enables administrators to set thresholds so, when thresholds have been exceeded, an alert can be issued or a predefined action can be initiated. |
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